Scandinavian American State Bank v. Downs

The plaintiff seeks foreclosure of liens claimed by it upon three different parcels of real property in Spokane comity, which it alleges are evidenced by three warranty deeds, absolute in form, but which are in fact mortgages given by the defendants to the plaintiffs to secure an indebtedness of $7,500. Judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiff, foreclosing all of the liens so evidenced. The defendants have *80appealed from so much of the judgment as decrees foreclosure against the real property conveyed by one of the deeds, contending that that deed was not given as security for the…